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LETTER Eastern Illinois University Lumpkin College of Business Spring 1990

Taking Care of Business Tops Goal Eastern's Taking Care of Business Capital Campaign to raise $500,000 surpassed its goal by $17,915, chaired by Roger Roberson ('64). Rober­son launched the campaign in March 1989 by establishing a $50,000 scholarship endow­ment, and continued his enthu­siastic support until the project was completed.

Dean Ted Ivarie said the campaign "took a combination of talent, commitment and hard work from alumni, business and friends" to surpass its goal. "We owe a great deal to the Steering Committee and the campaign's many donors. Their contributions will provide last­ing, tangible evidence of dedi­cation to pursuing excellence in Eastern's business programs. Students and staff are extremely grateful."

Contributions to the cam­paign will be used to purchase instructional equipment and of­fice furnishings for a new $6.2 million facility that is being built to house the Lumpkin Col­lege of Business and to estab­lish scholarships.

Judy Hofstrand, Director of Administration and Develop­ment for Lhe College, said that more than 40 individuals and businesses donated to the cam­paign which netted $375,915 for equipment and $142,000 for scholarships. "Rooms in the new building will be named in honor of each donor of $2500 or more. There are still a few rooms needing sponsors," said Hofstrand, adding, "Anyone wishing to sponsor a room may do so by calling me at 217-581-3526." @1!]

- -Led by Campaign Chair Roger Roberson, (center), campaign organizers give thumbs up to the successful fund drive. Pictured, len to right, are Dean Ted Ivarie, Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert Kindrick, Director of Administration and Development Judy Hofstrand, and steering committee members J , W. Oglesby, Roberson, President Stan Rives, Allee Shawver, Eli Sidwell, Jr., and James Giffin.

Taking Care of Business Room Sponsors

Name Room Amount

Roger Roberson Auditorium S5o;ooo State Farm Insurance Dean's Suite 50 000 Faculty/Staff/Friends Faculty/Staff Lounge 50,000 Trailrnobile, Inc. Case Study 25,000

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Case Study 25,000 Moore Business Forms Case Study 25,000 Icrc Case Study 25,000 Jeffrey & Lila Scott Case Study 25,000 Keller Family Case Study 25,000 J.W. & Marilyn Oglesby Study Area ' 10,000 United Graphics, Inc. Microcomputer Laboratory 10,000 Rex Cooley Microcomputer Laboratory 10,000 McGladrey & Pullen Microcomputer Laboratory 10,000 Robert & Ruth Wright Microcomputer Laboratory 10,000 Frank Vala Student Lounge 10,000 Jim & June Giffm Conferenc..: Room 10000 Don & Alice Shawver Conference Room 10 000 John Willingham Conference Room 10,000 John Heath Conference Room 10 000 Hopper Foundation Business Development Center 10,000 Robert C. Manion Admissions & Advising 10,000 Zenith Data Systems Office Wing 10,000 Don & Louise Calvin Office Wing 10,000 Jim & Bess Hanks Office Wing 10,000 Caterpillar, Inc. Office Wing 10,000 Ed Brankey Departmental office 5,000 Eli Sidwell Departmental office 5,000 Harry Miller Departmental office 5,000 Phi Gamma Nu/Delta Sigma Pi Departmental office 5,000 General Electric MBA office 5 000 Stephen Payne Faculty office 3,000 Terry & Carol Lundgren Faculty office 3,000 Roger Sorenson Faculty office 3,000 Advance Office Machines Faculty office 3,000 Daniel Thornburgh Faculty office 2,500 Grace Bair Faculty office 2,500 Doyle & Kay Dressback Faculty office 2,500 Mathew Monippallil Faculty office 2,500 Tedlvarie Faculty office 2,500 Vince Gregory Faculty office 2,500 Ken Diepholz Faculty office 2,500 Lillian Greathouse Faculty office 2,500 Grunloh Construction Company Faculty office 2,500 Monahan Company Faculty office 2,500 Dalton Brannen Faculty office 2,500 John Walstrom Faculty office 2,500 EIU Foundation Faculty office 2,500 EIU President's Club Faculty office 2,500 EIU President's Club Faculty office 2,500

Drop Us ALine ... New job? Additional degree? An award? Share the good news with your fellow alumni through the Lumpkin Letter! We11 print your news in the next issue.

-------Mail to: Editor Lumpkin Letter 109 Blair Hall Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920

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Please make checks payable to EIU Foundation/Lumpkin College of Business

SBIProject Runner-up In Nation

A Small Business Institute research project conducted by two EIU students has been awarded runner-up in national competition. The EIU project was selected for this award from a field of several hundred SBI projects submitted from all SBI regions in the U.S. and is the second SBI case completed by EIU students to receive a na­tional award. The project "Stra­tegic Analysis of the Economic Development for Robinson and Crawford County" provided es­sential guidelines for local eco­nomic development activities. This project was conducted by John Summers and Kent Mel­lorn under the direction of Dr. Foster Rinefort. Small Busi­ness Institute teams serve cli­ents through the Business De­velopment Center at EIU.

New Business Department Created

More changes! The Lump­kin College of Business has re­organized its three departments­-Accountancy, Data Processing, and Finance; Business Educa­tion & Administrative Informa­tion Systems; and Management and Marketing--into four. The new academic unit is called the Department of Computer and Operations Management "Departments had grown too large," said Dean Ivarie, adding "We wanted to strengthen our curriculum by bringing together all faculty teaching in these are­as." No changes were made in degree programs as a result of this reorganization. Faculty re­assigned to the new department are: Dr. William Allen, Dr. Mark Bomball, Dr. Janis Cart­er, Ms. Janet Francis, Dr. Yo­nus Kathawala, Dr. Karen Ket­ler, Ms. Delores Knott, Mr. Michael Maziarz, Dr. Robert Meier, Dr. Richard Schilhavy, Dr. Efraim Turban, Dr. John Walstrom, Mr. Michael Taylor, and Mr. Michael Wilson.

Top Performers Honored at A wards Ceremony Seventy-one awards were pre­sented to 54 students at the 1989-90 Lumpkin College of Business Awards Ceremony held on Sunday, April22, 1990, in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Univer­sity Union.

Sherry McCoy won top honors as the 1990 Lumpkin College of Business Dean's Award recipient. Other honors bestowed upon Sherry include the Boatmen's National Bank Finance Award, the Delta Mu Delta Senior Achievement Award, and scholarship keys from Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Gamma Nu. Sherry has accu­mulated a 4.0 grade point aver­age with double majors in ac­countancy and finance. After graduating in May, Sherry joined the public accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen in­Peoria. Former Dean and Mrs. James Giffm provided the en­dowment which funds the Dean's Award.

Sherry McCoy

Kristine Huge and Brad Kinkelaar are tops in their de­partments as recipients of the Alexander Briggs Memorial Award. Kris graduated in May with a degree in Administrative Information Systems and will be employed as an examiner for the FDIC in Mt. Vernon, Illi­nois. Following Brad's May graduation in marketing, he is serving an internship with the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

Jeffrey G. Scott

Jeffrey G. Scott, Class of '68, was honored as our 1990 Distinguished Alumnus. Scott began his career with CIGNA Individual Financial Services Company as a sales representa­tive in 1970, progressing to his current position of Regional Vice President in 1983. Jeff has obtained the professional designations ofCLU, CFP, and ChEC; has been admitted to the Registry of Financial Planning Practitioners; is a five-time re­cipient of CIGNA's Outstand­ing Agency Award, a four-time winner of the GAMC Master Agency Award, and is a life­time winner of their National Management Award. He is also an active speaker throughout the insurance industry. Scott is a member of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the board of the EIU Foundation. At EIU Jeff is also a member of the President's Oub and the Lump­kin College of Business Dean's Business Advisory Board. Jeff is married to the former Lila Spencer, who is also an EIU business alum. They are both originally from Salem, Illinois.

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Kudos .. . to our alwnni

Paul Blough, C89) is employed as a Systems Analyst with Caterpillar in Peoria.

Ron Grabski, C69) is Vice President of Marketing with Gerber Plumbing Fixtures Corporation, residing in Wbeaton,ll-

Cynthia A. Hardy, (77) is Client Relations Manager, Dealer Services Division, Automatic Data Processing in Dallas, TX.

Scott D. Harris, C76) lives in Metomora, IL; is Senior Sales Repre­sentative with W.W. Grainger. He has been with the company for ten years.

David Kater, (74) was promoted to Purchasing Manager with Knapbeide Manufacturing Company, Quincy, IL

Eric S. Lewis, C86) was promoted to media director with Jones and Thomas, Inc., Decatur.

Steven Replogle, (79) joined the staff of Reginald Lee Replogle, CPA finn in Charleston.

Ken Schwelghart, C77) was promoted to General Manager of Heanland Coop­erative Grain, Tuscola, ll-

Ell Sidwell, Jr., C58) named honorary member of EIU's Tau Chapter of Delta Mu Delta. Realtor Sidwell owns Eli Sidwell and Associates in Charleston.

Randy Sims, C89) manages the men's clothing department at Famous Barr in Oayton,MO.

Roger G. Shaw, C74) is employed by the Illinois Department on Aging in the Division of Administrative Compliance, residing in Shelbyville, IL

Michael L. Weaver, C73) received EIU's Alumni Service Award for 1989. Illinois State Representative Weaver is also a part-time faculty member in the Lumpkin College of Business.

Todd Wletllspach, ('88) was promoted to Specialist ill in the Data Processing Department at State Farm Mutual Auto­mobile Insurance Company's home of-

. fice, Bloomington, IL.

Kevin W. Wiggs, C80) is employed with J.W. Boyle and Company, Belleville, IL.

Todd M. Wochlnskl, C86) is employed with Conrad, Craig, and Martin; lives in ML Prospect, ll-

Joe Dively, C81) and Jeffrey Obers· chelp C80) are partners in Pyramid Mall Developers in the Boston area.

.. . to our faculty and staff

Edward Brankey, MM, was appointed Staff Editor for the American Business lAwlowNJI.

Clifford Fagan, Business Education professor at Eastern from 1949-1975, owns a business consulting finn in Las Vegas,NM.

Virginia Fischer, ADF secretary, re­tired after six years service at EIU, moved to Indiana.

Pat Graves, BED, named editor of the Bulletin, the newsletter for the Commu­nication Division of the Association of Management; appointed to the Office Automation Society International Certi­fication Council; received Certification for Office Automation Professionals (COAP).

Lillian Greathouse, BED, appointed to the editorial board of the new J OIITMI

of Office AutomaJi011 Society; received renewed Certification for Office Auto­mation Professionals (COAP).

Yunus Kathawala, MM, received an EIU 1990 Faculty Excellence Award for research from President Rives fol­lowing a university committee's recommc.ndation.

Roger Luft, BED, appointed to the Illi­nois State Board of Education Focus Group for the Development of the State of Illinois Administrative Plan for Vo­cational Technical Education.

Foster C. Rinefort, MM, visited Mos­cow Institute of National Economy, the Moscow International Business School, and the National Managers Training In­stitute; met with various Russian offi­cials; also recently made policy recom­mendations to OSHA administrators in Washington D.C.

Rosanne Sanders, BED, retires from EIU this year with 21 years service. Thank you, Rosanne for your loyal ser­vice to the department!

Efraim Turban, Lumpkin Distin­guished Professor of Business, recently authored the books Decision Support and Expert Systems; Investment Man­agement: DecisiOII Support and Expert Systems; was appointed to the editorial board of Information Resowces Man­agement; was named Associate Editor for Information Resource Management for Decision Line; was appointed DSS Institute chairman by the Department of Defense (Defense Systems Manage­ment College).

Marilyn Wilkins, BED, appointed to the Business/Marketing/Management Content Advisory Committee for the ll­linois Certification Testing System, Illi­nois State Board of Education; named ad hoc reviewer for J ownal of Micro­computer Systems MaNJgement; re­ceived renewed Certification for Office Automation Professionals (COAP).

Bill Wootton and Waldo Born, ADF, Yunus Kathawala and Nancy Marlow, MM, were selected to attend a special ethics conference sponsored by Arthur Anderson and Company in St. Charles. This is the first year Eastern has been chosen to send representatives to this important conference.

Congratulations to recipients of Lumpkin College of Business summer research grants: Sid Dudley, Richard Palmer, Carol Lundgren, Lola Dudley, Lankford Walker, Jyotl Prasad, Marilyn Wilkins, and Waldo Born.

... to our students

Eric Arnold, an Accounting major, was chosen second-team academic All­American for University Division foot­ball teams by the Collegiate Sports In­formation Directors of America.

Robin Bodine, BED, named Illinois Future Business Teacher of the year.

Dan Riordan, a Business Education major, was elected EIU's student body presidenL

Congratulations to these future leaders of the 21st century!

Dr. Chandler Named Distinguished Professor

Dr. E. Wayne Chandler, associate professor of manage­ment for the Lumpkin College of Business, was honored with the Distinguished Professor Award. Dean Ted Ivarie said, "Dr. Chandler has earned a rep­utation as a demanding but fair teacher, a dependable, industri­ous colleague, and a widely read scholar." The Distin­guished Professor Award was initiated in 1980 by alumnus Dr. John Willingham, and awar­dees are selected by a faculty committee.

Dr. E. Wayne Chandler

Other faculty awards were: Promising Researcher Award­

Dr. Dean Elmuti Research Award-

Dr. Mathew Monippallil Service Award-

Dr. Mathew Monippallil Innovative Teaching Award­

Dr. Waldo Born

7~/ 0 ur sincere thanks to the 1,715 alums who donated $53,562 to the Telefund cam­paign just completed. Your gifts support student awards and scholarships and faculty de­velopment activities. This year gifts ranged from $10- $250, averaging $31.23. Thirty-six percent of alums contacted made pledges. Students appre­ciate the fact that you are pro­viding for those who follow in your footsteps!

lvarie Announces Named Scholars Program

"Now, thanks to this program, we can assist both talented and needy business students! The quality of our students and programs will be enhanced."

The Lumpkin Letter

Published by Lumpkin College of Business Eastern lllinois University 109 Blair Hall

Dean: Theodore W. Ivarie Editor: Judith Hofstrand Design: Chuck Nivens

Address Correction Requested

Business students at EIU have a new opportunity thanks to the vision and foresight of Dean Ted lvarie. lvarie's plan to provide scholarship endow­ments for top academic per­formers and also for needy stu­dents struck a responsive chord with several alums. The pro­gram works this way: A mini­mum of $10,000 (which may be paid over a period of time) is donated to the EIU Foundation to establish a scholarship fund. Earnings from the endowment provide financial assistance to students selected in accordance with the donor's criteria. Schol­arships may be based upon aca­demic performance, fmancial need or both. Awardees receive recognition as worthy recipients of the scholarship as well as fi­nancial assistance for their edu­cation. Dean Ivarie expressed gratitude to the program's spon­sors saying, "It is exciting to be able to recruit top high school and community college stu­dents by offering financial as­sistance. Top academic per­formers receive financial assistance offers from other

business schools but until now EIU lacked the re­sources to compete for these students unless they demonstrated financial need. Now, thanks to this program, we can assist hQlh talented and needy business students! The quality of our students and programs will

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Scholarship Name Donor

Cooley-Marathon Rex & Nancy Cooley/Marathon Oil

Cooley-Marathon Rex & Nancy Cooley/Marathon Oil

Cooley-Marathon Rex & Nancy Cooley/Marathon Oil

Cooley-Marathon Rex & Nancy Cooley/Marathon Oil

Edward Brankey Edward Brankey/EIU Foundation

Oay/Richland County Anonymous

Jim & Bess Townsend Hanks Jim & Bess Townsend Hanks

J.W. & Marilyn Oglesby J.W. & Marilyn Oglesby

United Graphics, Inc. United Graphics, Inc.

Jim & J~me Giffin Jim & June Giffin

Jim & J~me Giffin Jim & June Giffin

Robert & Barbara Sullivan Alumnae, friends & family

Jerome J. Rooke Alumnae, friends, J.J. Rooke

Keller Family Thelma Keller

Roger Roberson Roger Roberson

Donald & C. Alice Shawver Donald & C. Alice Shawver

Rudy Hlavek Rudy Hlavek

• funding incomplete; donations still being accepted

••value to be determined at plan's maturity

In Memoriam

Endowment

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This issue of The Lumpkin Letter is dedicated to the Memory of Richard A. Lumpkin for whom ow­college is named. Mr. Lumpkin, entrepreneur and business leader for many years, passed away on November 10, 1989 at his home in Mattoon. He was 93. Dean Ted lvarie said, "Mr. Lumpkin's generouscontributionto the Lumpkin College of Business enabled us to aspire to greatness--as he did. We have lost a truly great friend."

Richard A. Lumpkin

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